Favourite Guitarists

[Benway]

thumbs up to django, george benson, pat methany, fripp and john mcLaughlin.

but how about:

bert jansch (pentangle)
pierre bensusan (french folk ?)
michael hedges (harp guitar - taproot and aerial boundaries)

[fast eddie]

I was thinking of Bert Jansch as well, also:

Roddy Frame - Aztec Camera
Johnny Marr - The Smiths

[peejay]

Earl Klugh
Chris Standring
Tommy Emmanuel
Kirk Lorange

[PhilNYC]

My favorites:

Jeff Beck
Stevie Ray Vaughn
John Scofield
Kenny Burrell
Wes Montgomery
Tommy Emmanuel
Eddie Van Halen
Paco De Lucia
Carlos Santana
David Gilmour

[razzbuddy]

Tomjtx said

"In the 80's I was able to play for Segovia several times in his Madrid apartment.
A friend of mine is his great nephew and also a guitarist and got us the invitation to play for him.
His music room was like a museum , with many famous composers autographed works laying about."

Yeow! I would definitely put that into the category of
'bright moments'!

What an honor.

[Khuli]

Lots of fine guitarists mentioned so far - but I'd have to add in Brian May and Alex Lifeson.

Did Steve Hackett get a previous mention?

[Kyle]

Robert Cray
Jonny Lang
Jimmy Page
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Duane Allman

[chris.mason]

Alex Lifeson

Are we including bass guitarists...? If so:
Geddy Lee
Les Claypool

[snarlydwarf]

ah and a couple more:
1) Philip 'Snakefinger' Lithman
2) Steve Stevens (the guitarist for Billy Idol??? Try Bozzi-Levin-Stevens and he is incredible, especially since it is improv'd).

[tomsi42]

Thx, I'm getting old - Gilmour, Clapton and Vaughan should have been on my initial list. Don't know Popovic.

An underrated guitarist is Lindsey Buckingham.

I agree with you regarding Lindsay Buckingham. Peter Green was also good when he was on top.

Ana Popovic was born in Beograd and is currently living in Amsterdam. She playes blues in the same style as late Stevie.